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The imgur thing looks like Google was following links from another webpages. i.e. I submit a pic to fotoforensics, I post the link here (something like fotofore
by hnabz 8y ago
The imgur thing looks like Google was following links from another webpages. i.e. I submit a pic to fotoforensics, I post the link here (something like fotoforensics.com/analyze?url=imgur.com/blabla) and Google ended up crawling all those links in batches.
The fact that he says something like "a Google administrator tracked down a rogue employee and made him stop" makes it clear he's paranoid (or malicious).
- wybiral 8y ago> The fact that he says something like "a Google administrator tracked down a rogue employee and made him stop" makes it clear he's paranoid (or malicious). Or sensationalism. (it did land a top spot on HN)
- mintplant 8y agoIf you read the original post about that issue [0], the imgur.com URLs submitted were for imgur web pages containing an image, rather than direct image URLs. This caused the FotoForensics service to emit an error message. Users wouldn't have any reason to link to those error pages. [0] https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/484-Google-Abuse.html https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/484-Go...